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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1954-5-5, Page 2;FABLE TAU(S. clams Andvewo Lamb stew is either one thing or the other — a dreary, unin- terested sort of dish or a real treat, By following this recipe, you'll be able to, serve something that even the most critical will smack their lips over. SAVORY LAMB STEW 11/2 pounds lamb shoulder 2 tablespoons fat 4 cups water 1 cup cetera leaves 4 sprigs parsley 1 bay leaf 2 teaspoons pepper jlp tsp, monosodium glutaniate 12 small onions, peeled 3 large carrots, cut in 2" pieces 94 teaspoon ground ginger. lis teaspoon ground rosemary 14 cup all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon lemon juice Wipe meat with a damp cloth and but in 11" cubes. Heat fat in a large, heavy sauce pot and brown meat slowly on all sides. Add the next 7 ingredients. Cover tightly and simmer about 95 minutes. Add onions, carrots, ginger and rosemary. Simmer about 25 minutes longer, or until vegetables are tender, Then 'thicken the stew — mix flour with 'h cup water. Stir into the het stew. Bring to a boil, stir - sing constantly, and cook 2 min- utes. Stir In lemon juice. Makes servings. Almost a meal in itself is this highly satisfying dish; and while the recipe calls for frozen lima beans, the unfrozen sort will do just as well, or something else ean be substituted. SHORT RIBS & VEGETABLES 2 pounds short ribs of beef, cut in serving pieces 2 tbisp. all-purpose flour lr/s teaspoons salt al teaspoon pepper a tbisps. fat or beef -fat drip- pings 1 cup water 2 carrots, cut in 132 strips 12 small white onions 1 12 -ounce package frozen lima beans Wipe meat with a damp cloth. Combine flour, salt and pepper; 'sprinkle over meat, coating well. Beat fat in a heavy skillet and brown meat well on all sides. Add water. Cover tightly and took over low heat, about 30 minutes, or until meat begins to seem tender. Add carrots and anions; cook 15 minutes more. Then add beans and cook an ad- ditional 10 to 15 minutes or until tender. Thicken gravy, if desired. Makes 4 servings. s * * FAVORITE CASE (2 eggs) 214 cups sifted Cake Flour 21/2 teaspoons baking powder la teaspoon salt Stare Stare — Glaring from his sage in Paris, France, is a '"Grand Duke' owl, a rare and dangerous species captured re- cently in the mountainous Isere region,of the French Alps. The feathery creature Is on exhibi- }lon at an ornithological show, r cup butter :er ether short- ening 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, well beaten 94 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times, Cream but- ter thoroughly, add sugar grad - and cream together until light and fluffy, Add eggs and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating aftereach addition until smooth, Add vanilla: Bake in two greased 8 -inch layer pans in moderate oven (3757.) 25 to 30 minutes, Spread Frosting between layers and on tap- and sides of cake. b a * WONDER CAKE (1 egg) 2 cups sifted cake flour 2 teaspoons baking powder tes teaspoon salt Hi cup butter or other sbort- ening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 94 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt, and sift together three times, Cream but- ter thoroughly, add sugar gradu- ally, and cream together until light and fluffy, Add egg and beat very thoroughly, Add dour, alternately with milk, a small amount at a time, beating after each addition until smooth. Add vanilla, Bake in greased pan, 8x8x2 inches, in moderate oven (350°F.) 45 to 50 minutes. Spread with frosting. This Was A Real Runaway Romance In the year 1770 the pleasure city of Bath was aglow with pretty girls, handsome men, music and love. Amid the gaiety no one lost his heart more rapidly than ris- ing playwright and politician Richard Brinsley Sheridan as he listened to the singing of lovely Elizabeth Linley. She was only sixteen and he an impetuous nineteen. A witty friend remarked that he had . about as much chance. of win- ning her heart as a doorpost, for she was the toast of the town. Wherever she went, in pump - room or assembly room, Eliza- beth was escorted by the beaux and fops of the world of fash- ion. But Sheridan soon learned that a certain Captain Mathews pestered her with. his attentions more than all other admirers. And though the alluring singer did not know it, Mathews was a married man. A practised and heartless phil- anderer, the captain vowed he would blow his brains out un- less she return his love. With youthful dally Flieabeth felt subtly flattered by these suicide threats. And she innocently be- lieved his protestations of de- votion. Into this situation Sheridan deft l y inserted himself by courting Mathew's acquaintance. Saying --nothing of his own love, he was soon to all appearances deep in the older man's friend- ship. Then he' learned the startling truth. Mathews was an impostor, whose rank of captain had merely been self -awarded, With an unhappy wife in the back- ground, he was just another adventurer with Bath as his playground. Acting as go-between, Sheri- dan was able to -see Elizabeth and tell her the truth. Though half -Infatuated, -she reluctantly consented to write Mathews a farewell letter. But it was no sooner written than she relent- ed and Mathews called at her house. Brandishing a pistol, he now swore to take both her life and his •own unless she would pledge her love to him, She pleaded for time. And it seemed ;to Short In The Saddle • -- Spurs, boots and saddles, all in lot sizes, lent a Wild West effect to the recent Children's Horse Show et Pinehurst.. Leslie Diekaon, 20 -month-old contestant Is shown above nonchalantly waiting her turn in the ring to be Judged for the lead line. Class, That's A Dog? — It may be hard to believe, but this black bundle resembling a ball of wool is really a H'un.garian shepherd dog. The dog was on exhibition recently at a West Berlin, Germany, dog show. - the wretched Elizabeth that to take poison herself was the only way out, To -day her behaviour smacks of the "School for Scandal" comedies that framed the era, but Bath itself was a gigantis stage and the emotions of the heart ran true and deep. Lock- ing herself in a room with a bottle of laudanum. Elizabeth dutifully sat down and wrote her will. But perhaps she had also coquettishly arrange d through a friend for handsome Sheridan, to be ,told what was happening. At the right moment the young playwright broke in, sent for a doctor, went in search of Mathews and returned to urge Elizabeth that it would be best to leave Bath. Escape with someone who loved her, he pleaded, was the only way. One day, when Elizabeth's parents were out of town, she entered a sedan chair. Not tar away, in a closed car- riage, Sheridan was waiting. And as boy and girl drove away they had the pleasure of seeing Mathews waiting on Elizabeth's doorstep. By dawn,Sheridan and Eliza- beth Linlewere boarding a packet -boat for France. Youth- fully ignorant of the ways of the world, neither could see a better way out. So e hivalrous was Sheridan that he intended to find a con- vent in France where Elizabeth could rest for a while before de- ciding her future plans. Once at sea, however, both decided marriage was the natural out- come of their escapade. In a little church near Lille they went through a ceremony of marriage and the priest in- stantly recommended a convent which would temporarily re- ceive Elizabeth. Thus the couple parted on what shpuld have been their honeymoon! Back in Bath, however, Sheri- dan found that Mathews had not been idle. In the advertise- ment columns of a local news- paper he had inserted a notice stigmatizing the playwright as a liar and scoundrel. Sheridan challenged the bogus captain to a duel. With seconds and swords, the two met by candlelight in a London tavern. The blades crossed—and swift- ly Sheridan disarmed his op- ponent. Mathews had to swal- low his words and apologize for the libel in writing, Meanwhile, Elizabeth's parent's had brought their daughter home. But the drama was by no means ended. Writhing un- der public contempt, Mathews insulted Sheridan again — and again the playwright challenged him to a duel. He had shown mercy to his opponent. But this time -at dawn on a hillside near Bath — luck was against him, His sword broke off at the haft. Instead of allowing him to surrender, Mathews struck at hitt again and again. They left the young play- wright for dead, Even his seconds fled. Distracted at hearing the news, Elizabeth rushed to the scene. But fortunately Sheridan had crawled away, A friendly shepherd had found him and dressed his wounds. Seen Sheri- dan recovered. And when he was twenty-two and Elizabeth Linley was still only nineteen they were again married, this time in the English way. Under Fire — Dr. J. Robert Op- penheimer, .adviser to the Ato- mic Energy Commission, has been suspended on security grounds, pending an investiga- tion by the commission's security board. He is one of the world's foremost atomic physicists, and. directed the construction of America's first A-bomb. All Done With Cards A recent issue of one of the best known businessman's mag- azines carries a straight-faced and capable article on the "uni- versal card." This isn't the kind of card that bears hearts and spades and is certainly universal among both bridge and canasta players. It is a punched and cod- ed bit of cardboard designed to tell personnel managers at the flick of a switch what manner of men they are shepherding. Now, because we are not wholly unsophisticated we are aware that there are great hum- an as'well as economic values in such advices. They help to get square pegs out of round holes, they can aid top management in discovering future general sup- erintendents, and they can res- cue able young men from under the thumbs of frustrated, petty , tyrants. But because we are also a bit fed up with "mechanical brains" and other mechanistic paving stones to a push-button world we may be pardoned- a f5w skeptical though not deroga- tory observations. This card carries on its face the usual identifying data from photograph to thumbprint. Its margin is notched so that in the twinkle of an eye one of those marvellous , electronic selector machines will classify the em- ployee according to 14 personal- ity characteristics reduced to • measurability on some scale - from his "extroversion rating" to his "political affiliation," from his "salary gradient" to the "Moss Social Intelligence" score of his wife, So .ardent a try at comprehen- siveness—at keying every pos- sible factor in the personal equa- tion—leaves us half surprised not to find something akin to what Paul found on Mars Hill: 'an- other notch dedicated tS "the unknown traits." And noting that "informAtion Of a private nature" is to be entered on the back of the card, we would hope that such information might lead to a personal interview t0 find out what the guy is really like. —From The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Exhaust Smoke May Re The Culprit The alarming modern increase in cancer of the lung has been attributed by some medical men .to smoking -.-but it may beoral- nary smoke, not tobacco smoke, that is the true villain, Alli- over the world there is a greater incidence of lung cancer in cities than in country areas. An American doctor, ad- dressing the U.S. Cancer Socie- ty, laid the blame- on the pole luted air of built-up areas, and particularly .upon the exhaust fumes from cars, buses and lor- ries, - "We are creating cancer hazard in the air Over our big cities," he said, "by dumping alh,manner of fumes and gases into the atmospbere," Filter papers like smog masks, placed acrossthe exhaust pipes of petrol and diesel oil engines r u n n 1•n g, collected materials which caused skin tumours on fifty per centofthe mice they were painted on. Yet in all cit- ies these materials are steadily accumulated in the air we breathe. The everyday "smog" which we never notice may be just as dangerous to our health as the occasional outbreak . of ,black "smog". Chance Laugh Turned Killer Into Clown • Oldtimers who first saw the hard-hitting, savage Max Baer step into the ring will tell you that the California Adonis could have been the greatest -heavy- weight of all had it not been for a single laugh that rang in his ears early in his career. It was that laugh that may have changed a great fighter with a strong kill- er instinct into -the merriest clown that ever pranced through the ropes. It was in 1930 that Max Baer met a barrel-chested, handsome young Italian named Frankie Campbell. Minutes before the fight was to begin, a trainer told Max ils-'the dressing room that Campbell - w a s saying things about him, calling him a punk and a bum. Baer sprang down from the rubbing table, slapped one glove against the other and yelled, "Okay, let's gol I'll kill this guyl" In the second round, Frankie Campbell caught Max with a looping right and dumped him to the canvas. Foolishly, Frank- ie turned to wave at some friends at ringside and laughed in de- rision. Max, sprawling on the floor, heard the jeering laugh and his rage burst like a storm. He shot across the ring and . sent Campbell spinning with. a .-ter- rifle blow behind the ear. Campbell, spitting blood be- tween round, mumbled to his seconds, "I think something snap- ped in my head," Nevertheless, he wentoutfor the third and fourth rounds to run into a Baer gone berserk. Fighting like a madman to erase the memory of that derisive laugh, Baer punch- ed .furiously. In the fifth round he dropped the battered Camp- bell, The next morning, Frankie died, a horrible, battered wreck of a man. From that day, Max Baer ceas- ed to be the same vicious killer of the. ring. There was a period of semiobscurity during which Max was on the skids. Then he came back to win other fights, but nev- er again with the full display of savagery that marked him in that fatal bought. His parade through fistiana was thoroughly picturesque. gels clowning made all the headlines. Despite his an- tics, Max fought the best of them, men like Tom Heeney, Max Schmeling, Tommy Loughran, Risko, and Paulino. It was his defeat of Schmeling that earned Max Baer a shot at the title then held by the ponderous Primo Carnera, And that fight was one of the wildest ever seen in the Garden Bowl, writes Bi11 Stern in "Favorite Fight Stories." Max, eternally the clown, dom- inated the fight from start to finish. Although the big Italian outweighed him by nearly sev- enty pounds, the California Adon- is tossed him around 'the ring like a sack of oats. While winning the title, Max was still able to get off one of his best gags in the ring. Outfighting and out - jabbing the big champion, Max sent his opponent to the canvas twelve separate occasions durs ing the contest. Many of the times he was knocked down, Carnera succeeded in grabbing Baer and pulling hint with him. Instead of making Max sore, this little trick of the champion's seemed t0amuse him mare and moreeedh time it happened. At last, when the two men were sprawling on the floor and try- ing to seratnble back to their feet to go on with the fight, Baer tutted 16' Primo lying next t0 him and roared happily in bis ear for all the spectators to hear, "Hey, Preeml Last one up's a sissy!" CAMERA THAT'S SMALLER THAN CIGARETTE -LIGHTER The millions of picture -goers who saw that delightful ,film "Roman Holiday," starrii)g the brilliant and beautiful y o u n g British actress Audrey Hepburn, will remember that while she was going about Rome pretend- ing not to be a princess, she was recognized by an American newspaper man, Gregory Peck, who got a pal to take photo- graphs of her without her know- ing it, The camera this man used was about the shape and size of a eigerette lighter, To throw her Off the scent, he put a cigarette into his mouth, took out the .eamera and pretended t0 be. lighting his cigarette, ' whereas actually he was taking pictures of her. The camera could not, of course, light his cigarette. His pal ,gave him a light on the pretext that the lighter . didn't work, Now most people, I'm pretty sure, thought that tiny camera was just a film stunt. There couldn't, they felt, be a camera so small that could take such excellent pictures. Wel, there is, you know, And I have one exactly like it, writes R. J. Min- ney in "Tit -Bits". Thepictures it takes are astonishingly good. Sharp and Clear Let me tell you about it, The camera is made entirely of a very light, bright metal and is no heavier than a cigarette - lighter. It is three inches long and one inch wide. My cigarette - lighter is nearly as long and hall` as wide again, The film used is not quite two-fifths of an inch wide, and just over two feet long. On this it takes fifty ex- posures, each 'of them extremely „tiny of course. But the images are sharp and clear. There are nearly. three hun- dred springs and wheels and bits of lens and metal, The lens is of wide angle and extremely sensitive. The camera can be used at quite close range, as close as eight inches from the face of the person photograph- ed — all the distances are very carefully marked and the camera can be adjusted quite easily to one foot or one foot four inches from the object (or to infinity) before being put into operation. This close work is, of course, very useful for copying docu- ni'ents and the camera was indeed used for this form of spying in the film "The Thief," of which Ray.Milland was the star. The speeds, too, are of an astonishing range. You can work as fast as one -thousandth of -a second and slow it down to half a second or more if you choose. And the actionof the trigger is almost inaudible. Nobody could possibly suspect that you were taking a picture, unless, of course, you held it to your eye and began fiddling with. the adjustments in full view. Built into the camera there are two filters, one green, and the other or ge. These are for photographing clouds and snow scenes, which though almost in- visible on ,the film, enlarge up with amazing clarity. You would think — I know I did — that this camera was evolved doling the war f or espionage and various forms of military and aerial reconnais- sance. But it is not a product of the war. The model I have was pre- war. It was made in Riga, which is the capital bi the small and almost unknown state of Latvia„ now bn the other side of the Iron Curtain, Until the outbreak of war in ]:939, Latvia was an independent, state. Russia seized It at the time Germany overran Poland and it remained in Russian hands until the German attack on Russia by Hitler in 1941. When the German armies swept through Latvia, the chiefs saw - the factory, were entranced by this mating little camera, and transferred its manufacture t0 Wetzler, in the veryheart cit Germany, After the war, Wetzlar ,fell into the zone occupied by U,$, troops. They saw the camera. and marvelled at its ingenuity and its capabilities. Production was stepped up and thousands of the cameras were shipped over- seas for sale in. Canada and the United States. So Claimed Damages Insurance companies l.aqu;:nt- 17 meet tale queerest claims, At Bucknall;, Nptts, last year, for instance, an 8-1b, vegeable mar- row cut from a family's garden exploded in the larder—presum , ably from gases fotmed inside the over -ripe fruit—completely wrecking some crockery. Tragically, at Liverpool, a one- year -old child was killed by a tyre buret; The little boy was playing in his front garden when a lorry passed by. The tyre ex- ploded xploded directly opposite him,' and he died from injuries. At Epping Forest, two Christ- mases ago, a man and his wife, sitting in their car, had the mis- fortune to be ,charged by a herd of deer. The leader, an unusual- ly aggressive buck, rammed their car with such force that it went bouncing down a bank, The herd charged after. it and the luck- less couple - found -themselves assailed by a forest of lashing hoofs, striking the roof and thudding through the windows, The husband escaped bruises, a but his wife, injured in her ribs, had to go to hospital, A claim with an altogether brighter aspect originated from '-the Belgian Congo after, a motor ist had bumped into a hippopo- tamus. In filling in his claim form, he regretted that the third • party had on this occasion, scut - ted before he could get parti- culars. The insurance agent. Hucknall, Notts, last - year, for in this case the usual "knock for knock , agreement" hardly applied! - The Bride — Actress Susan Ball, who suffered a leg amputation earlier this year, is shown in her wedding gown as she poses for wedding pictures before her marriage to actor Richard Long at Santa Barbara, Calif. They'll Get The Point .- Their thoughts obviously on the impend- ing needle, three rade school students listen as school Principal F, J. 'Kelsey explains polio vaccine request forms, The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is supplying the Salk polio vaccine for this spring's tests, results of which will net be *own until 1955, £